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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
How do!
Figured we might as well have a thread for this.
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/02/19/its-the-warhammer-world-anniversary-next-month-and-weve-got-reveals/
Reveal articles on the day. And a teaser for now.
I’m thinking Halflings.
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Post by: zedmeister
They're goosing around with that one...
...I'm guessing blood bowl
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Post by: warboss
Nah. New primaris lieutenant. Cawl finally went too far with his genetic tinkering of the astartes genome. 
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Post by: xttz
That's by far my favourite Khorne daemon engine
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Post by: The Phazer
Underworlds surely.
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Post by: Kanluwen
Might be something Cities of Sigmar related?
There's art in the main rulebook of human archers practicing, with the implication that it's a "militia" rather than the trained soldiery of the Steelhelms and the like.
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Post by: grahamdbailey
Duck squig?
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Warcry Malerion elves warband or Bretonnian Knights of the Feather.
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Post by: Inquisitor Gideon
I'm half tempted to say something old world because it's a bog standard goose. But bloodbowl would make more sense
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Post by: Grail Seeker
Whats that on its head? Is that a cap?
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Post by: Inquisitor Gideon
Yep, that's a football cap. You can see brown stitching down the middle. Bloodbowl it is.
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Post by: SamusDrake
Immediately thought of Blood Bowl, and yet by all rights it should be an Epic-scale Lord of Change.
Bored of the same old games at these previews and hope they throw in a boardgame for a change. Quest and Underworlds have become very stale of late...
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Post by: Shadow Walker
SamusDrake wrote:
Bored of the same old games at these previews and hope they throw in a boardgame for a change.
New, with solo and co- op modes, edition of Space Hulk would be nice.
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Post by: zedmeister
 Shadow Walker wrote:SamusDrake wrote:
Bored of the same old games at these previews and hope they throw in a boardgame for a change.
New, with solo and co- op modes, edition of Space Hulk would be nice.
Yes please, a new release of Spacehulk would be nice...
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Post by: warboss
Possibly. Or a toupee. Apparently wigs are a thing for geese and, as a fellow folically challenged individual, I won't judge.
https://snappy-tots.com/free-pattern-goose-wigs/
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Post by: Scottywan82
Halfing Blood Bowl release.  That's my guess.
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Post by: Olthannon
Hopefully it's a new Drycha mini.
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Post by: Scottywan82
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Post by: Fayric
You mean Warcry Mallardion elves, right. 
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Post by: NAVARRO
What tha Duck? GW should really release common things like farm animals packs.
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
 NAVARRO wrote:What tha Duck? GW should really release common things like farm animals packs.
i'd love for common animal sets. i don't care if they have rules, because i would want to use them as basing materials. i always love whenever a kit comes with little guys to put on the base, like sylvaneth bugs or plaguebearer nurglings
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Post by: Geifer
It's a Ratling aerial reconnaissance unit. If it gets shot down, they know the enemy is close.
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Post by: Scottywan82
Or if they hear a snickering dog.
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Post by: Billicus
Oh look, yet another games workshop thread. We already get one for rumour engine, one for 40k, one for (checks notes) Kroot, a sub-subfaction of 40k... it's too much is what I'm saying
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Post by: Gert
And where pray tell would you put the Warhammer Goose?
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Post by: RedSarge
Canadian chiming in.... you don't mess with "The hiss!" XD
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Yes/no/probably ( TBH no idea what Mallardion is)?
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Post by: Theophony
New Bretonnian team that has been eluded to. After all, what else floats in water???
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Post by: Scottywan82
I think it was a play on "mallard" in this case.
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Post by: Shadow Walker
My english vocabulary for birds needs an update then
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Post by: lost_lilliputian
Whoever our new feathered friend is for I'm just hoping he's in plastic and not resin.
Would love if it was Blood Bowl related as that was about the only specialist game not previewed this year so far. I've heard so many rumours about what is coming for Blood Bowl from so called experts but nothing about a duck.
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Post by: legionaires
Beware the Cobra Chicken!
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
 Theophony wrote:New Bretonnian team that has been eluded to. After all, what else floats in water???
Very small stones?
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Post by: Grimtuff
 StudentOfEtherium wrote: NAVARRO wrote:What tha Duck? GW should really release common things like farm animals packs.
i'd love for common animal sets. i don't care if they have rules, because i would want to use them as basing materials. i always love whenever a kit comes with little guys to put on the base, like sylvaneth bugs or plaguebearer nurglings
Nah, you've got to give them rules otherwise poor Redditors will get confused seeing something on a sprue that there aren't rules for. I swear, if I see one more post about those bloody shrine pieces on various Eldar/ DE aspect warrior sprues and people not understanding they are just for decoration I'm gonna scream.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
That, and nifty Objective Markers.
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Post by: xttz
 Grimtuff wrote:
Nah, you've got to give them rules otherwise poor Redditors will get confused seeing something on a sprue that there aren't rules for. I swear, if I see one more post about those bloody shrine pieces on various Eldar/ DE aspect warrior sprues and people not understanding they are just for decoration I'm gonna scream.
Will you scream when the eldar codex inevitably makes them into once-per-game tokens like DA watchers / GSC familars / Grots / Bomb squigs?
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Post by: ERJAK
Is a pun
Mallard is ducks.
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Post by: ccs
NAVARRO wrote:What tha Duck? GW should really release common things like farm animals packs.
Why? Do you want to spend 10x more on things that you can already get in any scale you like if you look for Model Railroad scenery? Or Doll House accessories?
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Post by: lost_lilliputian
ccs wrote: NAVARRO wrote:What tha Duck? GW should really release common things like farm animals packs.
Why? Do you want to spend 10x more on things that you can already get in any scale you like if you look for Model Railroad scenery? Or Doll House accessories?
Hehe probably not the right place for this but I admit to having used the little plastic animals from inside Kinder Surprise Eggs as mascots, fans, players, mercs, game pieces in games of Blood Bowl the little crocodile suits the Gutter Bowl sewer nicely! Mind you Blood Bowl is a fun, not to be taken too seriously game.
But yeah there's animals already out there. Actually GW already do quite a few animals now just not all together. There's a number of dogs from various games and birds too, crabs, fish even a monkey from that Ogre pirate UW band.
So people really think this duck is from a second halfling BB team, or a Bretonnian BB team or a UW warband?
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Post by: Da Butcha
Part of the Kasrkin release---Cadian goose.
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Post by: Snrub
ccs wrote:Why? Do you want to spend 10x more on things that you can already get in any scale you like if you look for Model Railroad scenery? Or Doll House accessories?
I'd hazard a guess that Navarro was being facetious with his farm animal comment.
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Post by: Jadenim
We have a winner! End of thread.
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Yeah, birds names in english are not my strong side, thanks
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Post by: DaveC
Time for - what's hidden on Youtube
AoS - 2 videos
40K - 2 videos
Bloodbowl - 1 video
That's all at this time
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Post by: xttz
Clearly the Ork & Custodes characters for 40k, at last
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
yeah, i'm not expecting more than a character for custodes, and it seems like orks are in a good place right now as far as models are concerned, so they don't need anything huge. but a smaller model release after the DA codex makes sense. as a custodes there isn't much i want right now other than every single forge world model in plastic
a melta spear upgrade sprue would be nice, tho. that's my pie in the sky dream for this reveal, a melta captain and a melta upgrade sprue
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Custards could do with a tank and Dread that isn’t just a Very Shiny Brick. And with Heresy, in terms of economic investment it makes more sense than ever.
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Post by: bullisariuscowl
as someone who loves birds and birdwatching, all this reveal is doing is making me hope the full miniature is just a goose, nothing else.
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
 bullisariuscowl wrote:as someone who loves birds and birdwatching, all this reveal is doing is making me hope the full miniature is just a goose, nothing else.
put it on an 80mm base and i'm sold Automatically Appended Next Post:  Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Custards could do with a tank and Dread that isn’t just a Very Shiny Brick. And with Heresy, in terms of economic investment it makes more sense than ever.
custodes could also do with a tank that looks good... fan of the dreads, tho. hope the Telemon comes to plastic someday because that thing is great
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Post by: GaroRobe
Do we have a time for the reveals ?
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Post by: straken619
I forgot about this. Will there be a stream or something? Or just articles. I don't see anything on Warhammer community other than the original article.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
I’m expecting Just Articles myself.
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
didn't they announce a stream when they shared the goose? or is the goose a different thing?
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Post by: GaroRobe
Nah, no mention of a stream
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Post by: DaveC
Not just a goose but a fox too!
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Post by: Kanluwen
And a badger!
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Post by: Shadow Walker
They look funny. Hopefully soon we will have some better quality pics.
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Post by: Scottywan82
Wait a minute! There are GNOMES in Warhammer Fantasy?!? I've been playing since 1995 and I genuinely have never known that.
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Post by: Fayric
 Scottywan82 wrote:Wait a minute! There are GNOMES in Warhammer Fantasy?!? I've been playing since 1995 and I genuinely have never known that.
I remember the old fantasy RPG (probably enemy within campaign) we met a gnome that tried to introduce paper bills as money currency. Natrually we had a good laugh at this silly con-man since there is no way to make paper as valuable as metal coins.
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Love the Gnomes team. Varius animals just add to their awesomeness. The treeman is cool too.
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Post by: Lord Damocles
Golden Boy's proportions look like he was designed in a funhouse mirror.
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Post by: ImAGeek
Yeah. He almost reads like a Dwarf proportionally. Not a great model unfortunately.
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Post by: Rekkiem
Oh Jesus that's bad. Almost the only thing you want from a custodes character is strong stature. This guy looks so stumpy 😭
Love the mek
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Post by: Inquisitor Gideon
Gnomes win for comedy, Darkoath for best reveal
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Yeah, banana man look dwarfy, cool spear though.
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Post by: Kanluwen
I love love love the gnome animals.
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Post by: Scottywan82
Same. The sweet little pocupine on their team marker is particularly adorable.
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Gnomes win but Big Mek is a second (I am just reading Da Big Dakka novel and am in da tek orky mood).
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Post by: Kanluwen
Scottywan82 wrote:
Same. The sweet little pocupine on their team marker is particularly adorable.
It's 6am and I already had one person that I paint stuff for texting to say they want the animals done for D&D.
I think this set may be hard to find, lol.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Gnomes? Who had Gnomes?
Absolutely Gnobody.
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Post by: Afrodactyl
I think it's a combination of torso slightly too short, and a really wide cape making his silhouette look dumpy. But the longer I look at it, the stranger it looks. I really can't put my finger on what exactly is wrong with the proportions.
Big Mek looks sick, definitely picking one up.
Those gnomes are fantastic.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Scottywan82 wrote:
Same. The sweet little pocupine on their team marker is particularly adorable.
Hedgehog. That’s a Hedgehog.
I’d be tempted to swap one of the animals out for a Womble.
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Ha ha ha
Gnomes are great
And I'll have to get my hands on the new mek someday, but not paywalled with a second stompa.
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Post by: Scottywan82
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote: Scottywan82 wrote:
Same. The sweet little pocupine on their team marker is particularly adorable.
Hedgehog. That’s a Hedgehog.
I’d be tempted to swap one of the animals out for a Womble.
Dammit! I literally waffled between which it was.
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Post by: NAVARRO
Oh gnomes... Thank god we really really needed those since no other company has that. 
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
the issue with the shield captain proportions is that custodes have always been a little wonky in this regard since the range came out just before GW updated the scale. but it's less obvious on the old models because it still "feels" right. they're just standing there, looking big, so even if the legs are a little stumpy, it looks fine. but with a model like this, being in such a dynamic pose that shows off the entire body, it's hard to ignore
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Custard looks less wonky with the helmet on.
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Post by: warboss
 xttz wrote:https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/03/02/warhammer-world-anniversary-big-meks-get-bigger-in-a-new-ork-codex/
My gut reaction to seeing this was that someone spilled Corvus Belli's Infinity over the Orks accidentally. It reminds me of the larger heavy power armor and lighter manned TAGs from that game... but orkified. I suspect that's probably not a bug but a feature.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
I prefer the other head. Orks without big toofy gobs don’t sit quite right with me.
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
what is an ork doing if he's not yelling. gathering breath for another scream? why would his mouth be shut all the time if he can be screaming in battle. it just doesn't make any sense
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Post by: gorgon
Regarding the Shield-Captain, I think the stance is a factor in what people are reacting to. Not sure it'd translate well to 2D photography. I'd like to see it IRL, as I suspect it's going to look better.
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Post by: Souleater
Maybe we did…but they were operating under a Gnome de Guerre?
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
StudentOfEtherium wrote:what is an ork doing if he's not yelling. gathering breath for another scream? why would his mouth be shut all the time if he can be screaming in battle. it just doesn't make any sense
I read the shut gob head as a sign he’s knocked his teef out to pay for some last minute scrap necessary for his toys. Automatically Appended Next Post:
Boo, Sir. Booooooooo!
Here, have an internet.
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Post by: frankelee
Putting out the Gnome Blood Bowl team now to soften up your hearts for the Gnome Army release coming to The Old World.
The Chaos marauders look neat, but they're not trying to pull another [leans forward with eyebrow raised high] Blacktalons box are they? You're not exactly releasing the cast of Friends in miniature form here, it's W+ show, they don't command that high of a price.
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Post by: GaroRobe
 frankelee wrote:Putting out the Gnome Blood Bowl team now to soften up your hearts for the Gnome Army release coming to The Old World.
The Chaos marauders look neat, but they're not trying to pull another [leans forward with eyebrow raised high] Blacktalons box are they? You're not exactly releasing the cast of Friends in miniature form here, it's W+ show, they don't command that high of a price.
Honestly, I just want the shaman. I’m already working on how to tweak it lol
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Post by: PoorGravitasHandling
The Mek model also looks like a miss to me?
Too many clean, appropriately placed, and evenly spaced rivets. A few hodge podge plates that look like they were added later in the design process in a (failed) attempt to make the weapon arms look less clean and factory assembled. The symbols are also cleanly riveted into place as opposed to roughly riveted iron plate with the symbols bashed into them on top of whatever pilfered gubbinz the mek used.
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Post by: Snord
PoorGravitasHandling wrote:The Mek model also looks like a miss to me?
Too many clean, appropriately placed, and evenly spaced rivets. A few hodge podge plates that look like they were added later in the design process in a (failed) attempt to make the weapon arms look less clean and factory assembled. The symbols are also cleanly riveted into place as opposed to roughly riveted iron plate with the symbols bashed into them on top of whatever pilfered gubbinz the mek used.
Maybe, but it’s the same aesthetic as most recent Ork models. The version with the iron gob looks better than the neo-Kruleboy head. It’s a shame this is all that is coming with the new codex - the Lootas, for instance, are really showing their age.
That Shield Captain is one of the worst WH40k models I’ve seen for a while.
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Post by: MajorWesJanson
I like parts of the Shield Captain, but I also think it looks like if you told an AI to take the LE Votaan character and make it Custodes instead
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Post by: Voss
Wildly underwhelmed.
Orks could've gotten at least a new loota/burna update since they're featured in the box o' random stuff.
Custards could've gotten new stuff of any kind.
Just one overdesigned character model each isn't a surprise, but still disappointing.
Darkoaths are a neat preview, I guess? Hopefully of a real range to come- there's definitely something solid here, but a handful of pseudo-character models aren't my cup of tea.
Gnomes just seem like a waste of resources. I don't think there's enough nostalgia bait for a long-forgotten unit (last seen in 3rd edition fantasy) to draw many sales.
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Post by: Apple fox
I don’t like the shield captain at all, and I got no hope for any good on the sisters of silence side.
Brings me down a bit, will just save money I think.
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Post by: Fayric
Would be great to use an actual votann head on the shield captain, and make it a thing.
I dont think the shield captain is particulary bad to be honest. They need to show more bulk and pomp than primaris marines, so what to expect?
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Post by: Overread
Voss wrote:
Gnomes just seem like a waste of resources. I don't think there's enough nostalgia bait for a long-forgotten unit (last seen in 3rd edition fantasy) to draw many sales.
The Gnomes aren't a unit; they are a Bloodblow team. So slightly different markets and honestly I think they are great designs for that game. Quirky and fun and its honestly the kind of design space that BB likely needs to go into as they've got teams for most of the core major races and, unlike a wargame, there isn't quite as much room to just keep adding models to the rosters.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Of the teams of yesteryear, I’m thinking it’s just Khemri and Slaan to go? With the Slaan being a non-starter due to Lizardmen.
Oh, and Chaos Dwarfs. Am I missing others?
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Post by: Vorian
High elves
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Post by: Tastyfish
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Of the teams of yesteryear, I’m thinking it’s just Khemri and Slaan to go? With the Slaan being a non-starter due to Lizardmen.
Oh, and Chaos Dwarfs. Am I missing others?
Slaan had been re-evisioned as a Kislev circus team, but they never got models.
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Post by: Da Boss
Those Gnomes are adorable. It really looks like the sculptor was having loads of fun making them. Probably the GW release that's impressed me the most in the last five years!
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Post by: OrlandotheTechnicoloured
Gnomes were in the very early GW miniature catalogue and mentioned in passing in the 1st edition WFRP
and were brought in as player characters (with a bunch more background) in white Dwarf 86 (later reprinted in Apocrypha Now). There was even a Gnome PC in the Rought Night in the Three Feathers which i suspect most WHFR players will have come across
but by 2nd WHFR the minis were gone, the gnome references were gone and the gnome in the Three Feathers had turned into a halfling
https://graemedavis.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/gnomevember/
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
 Da Boss wrote:Those Gnomes are adorable. It really looks like the sculptor was having loads of fun making them. Probably the GW release that's impressed me the most in the last five years!
Part of me wonders if they were a pet or persona project that caught the right person’s eye?
Whilst the evidence in the Link Tank thread shows Citadel always had oversight, some of the best stuff they’ve churned out started as passion projects the sculptor fought for.
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Post by: Sgt. Cortez
Orks would have needed a tankbusta kit more than another mek with big gun, but he's okay. He'll be far too expensive for my taste but all GW characters are these days.
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Post by: Mr Morden
The detail and sculpting on the Gnomes and friends is so impressive and a big contrast to the Custodes - its as bad as the one from the novels.....
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Post by: warboss
 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:Gnomes were in the very early GW miniature catalogue and mentioned in passing in the 1st edition WFRP
and were brought in as player characters (with a bunch more background) in white Dwarf 86 (later reprinted in Apocrypha Now). There was even a Gnome PC in the Rought Night in the Three Feathers which i suspect most WHFR players will have come across
but by 2nd WHFR the minis were gone, the gnome references were gone and the gnome in the Three Feathers had turned into a halfling
https://graemedavis.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/gnomevember/
Thanks for the link and clarification! I wonder how much of that early gnome work was left over from when they held the exclusive minis license for D&D minis in the UK and screwed over TSR by not doing anything with it so as not to have competition with their own WH brand.
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Post by: SnotlingPimpWagon
Gnomes are awesome. I always wanted an antipode to my whfb Night Goblins army (dwarves are not fun enough).
But I think I’m the odd one out- I’m a bit indifferent towards all the petting zoo comrades they have brought - I like the gnomes themselves.
Best mini of the release - has to be the marauder shaman.
Ork Mek - I haven’t liked a 40k ork release since plastic Meganobz. This sculpt continues to suffer from gw digital sculpting- too clean(works for eldar, ect), too cartoony (not Orky, but generic fantasy cartoony). And they can’t sculpt ork faces anymore for some reason. Old boyz > new boyz.
Custodies spear bro - just no.
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Post by: Mr Morden
 warboss wrote: OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:Gnomes were in the very early GW miniature catalogue and mentioned in passing in the 1st edition WFRP
and were brought in as player characters (with a bunch more background) in white Dwarf 86 (later reprinted in Apocrypha Now). There was even a Gnome PC in the Rought Night in the Three Feathers which i suspect most WHFR players will have come across
but by 2nd WHFR the minis were gone, the gnome references were gone and the gnome in the Three Feathers had turned into a halfling
https://graemedavis.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/gnomevember/
Thanks for the link and clarification! I wonder how much of that early gnome work was left over from when they held the exclusive minis license for D&D minis in the UK and screwed over TSR by not doing anything with it so as not to have competition with their own WH brand.
Lot of stuff in WFRP 4th ed about Gnomes
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Post by: Kid_Kyoto
You are not alone.
Frankly, they all look like that.
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
I said this earlier in the thread (or maybe one of the other threads on the topic), but the range really shows its age of being from right before GW updated their scale. if they had been just a year or so later it probably wouldn't be so bad. but the original models look fine for the most part, while this guy accents all the worst parts of the scale. I don't hate the model like others do but it's a case where it isn't flattering to itself
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Post by: Kid_Kyoto
The Gnomes made me smile. Not nearly as much as Cathay would have made me smile, but it's still a smile.
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Post by: Fayric
 Kid_Kyoto wrote:The Gnomes made me smile. Not nearly as much as Cathay would have made me smile, but it's still a smile.
Yeah, a Cathay blood bowl team at this point would have given me a good chuckle
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Post by: RazorEdge
Gnomes were part of the WHFB canon before 4th Edition in 1992 happened.
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Post by: Nazrak
Head on that Mek barely even looks like an Ork. Awful. Where's Brian Nelson when you need him? And where are plastic Tankbustas/Weirdboy?
Custodes guy doing nothing to disabuse me of the view they should never have been an army in the first place.
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Post by: tneva82
Voss wrote:
Gnomes just seem like a waste of resources. I don't think there's enough nostalgia bait for a long-forgotten unit (last seen in 3rd edition fantasy) to draw many sales.
Umm. It's bloodbowl team. Many bb players have multiple teams. These provide new team to buy.
It's not unit inside army. Blood bowl doesn't have armies. The team is all there is.
Box or two, big guy or two. Your team complete.
No need to draw on nostalgia. Just provide interestlng team for bb players to get.
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Post by: Voss
tneva82 wrote:Voss wrote:
Gnomes just seem like a waste of resources. I don't think there's enough nostalgia bait for a long-forgotten unit (last seen in 3rd edition fantasy) to draw many sales.
Umm. It's bloodbowl team. Many bb players have multiple teams. These provide new team to buy.
It's not unit inside army. Blood bowl doesn't have armies. The team is all there is.
Box or two, big guy or two. Your team complete.
I'm aware its a blood bowl team. But its based on a unit that used to exist in WFB, but hasn't since third edition.
Its not a hard concept. Nostalgia for things people don't even remember doesn't drive sales, even (or especially) in a new format.
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Post by: Overread
Maybe its a product that isn't aimed at Nostalgia?
You can argue the game tapped into that market initially, but one hopes its grown beyond that and new teams like this are just the kind of thing you'd expect.
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Post by: Inquisitor Gideon
Indeed, i have zero interest in blood bowl or ancient fantasy. But i'm very tempted by these just because they're very characterful and look fun to paint up.
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Post by: MajorWesJanson
 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:Indeed, i have zero interest in blood bowl or ancient fantasy. But i'm very tempted by these just because they're very characterful and look fun to paint up.
Same. I could care less about blood bowl but if I have the budget I want that goose. For Untitled War Game purposes.
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Post by: NAVARRO
I think GW noticed a gap in a popular race on other companies and took the dip to take those sales too.
With all that said if you take away the GW logo/ packaging these concepts and minis dont have anything in particular that would distinguish them from other companies.
Gnome is a gnome and GW gnomes are as generic as gnomes go.
Meh
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Post by: Fayric
I bet the goose or badger goes right up on top 3, model of the year -24.
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Post by: Tastyfish
 Fayric wrote:I bet the goose or badger goes right up on top 3, model of the year -24.
Only reason they wouldn't is the vote spilt between badger/fox/goose.
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Post by: Dryaktylus
Voss wrote:tneva82 wrote:Voss wrote:
Gnomes just seem like a waste of resources. I don't think there's enough nostalgia bait for a long-forgotten unit (last seen in 3rd edition fantasy) to draw many sales.
Umm. It's bloodbowl team. Many bb players have multiple teams. These provide new team to buy.
It's not unit inside army. Blood bowl doesn't have armies. The team is all there is.
Box or two, big guy or two. Your team complete.
I'm aware its a blood bowl team. But its based on a unit that used to exist in WFB, but hasn't since third edition.
Its not a hard concept. Nostalgia for things people don't even remember doesn't drive sales, even (or especially) in a new format.
They always brought back things most people didn't know/remember from time to time. Fimir, those weird old Chaos Dwarf war machines (though not the Boar centaurs), Zoats, Gyrinx, Jokaero, Toad Dragon, a Snakeman (albeit not Chaos), a range of spindly Orcs straight from the 80's, Elementals, some Regiments of Renown (seriously: who remebered Mengil or Ruglud when they got their re-release?) and so on. Amazones and Norse were kept alive in memory with Blood Bowl and the Lustria campaign, otherwise they had been forgotten too.
It's not wrong to dig out some old concepts, whether people remember them or not. If they like them, they will buy them.
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Post by: Overread
GW keeps teasing "Codex Zoats" now every Christmas!
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Post by: Shakalooloo
 Tastyfish wrote: Fayric wrote:I bet the goose or badger goes right up on top 3, model of the year -24.
Only reason they wouldn't is the vote spilt between badger/fox/goose.
Mini of the Year tends to have votes for boxes as a whole, not individuals within those boxes.
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Post by: Geifer
I don't strictly mind that gnomes exist, but it feels like GW is scraping the bottom of the barrel just so they don't have to make the Khemri team. That's pretty weak.
The mek is okay, I guess. Some good bits for lootin', a gob that doesn't look Orky, nothing great, really.
The Custodes captain looks bad to me for all the reasons discussed already. Most disappointing is that it seems like the last model Custodes need. How many captains are you going to have in your army? Should have been a Sister of Silence HQ or something completely different. Anything, as long as it's not the umpteenth captain.
I can appreciate more Darkoath.
Hardly the most exciting preview this time around.
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